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Web search results for query: "research lab financial management software PI dashboard"

Links: [{"title":"PI Dashboard | Cornell Research Services","url":"https://researchservices.cornell.edu/resources/pi-dashboard"},{"title":"PI Dashboard System | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Research Administration","url":"https://hcsra.sph.harvard.edu/pi-dashboard"},{"title":"PI Dashboard | Office of Sponsored Projects | The George Washington University","url":"https://sponsoredprojects.gwu.edu/pi-dashboard"},{"title":"PI Dashboard Application | Research Administration & Compliance Solutions","url":"https://ras.fss.harvard.edu/pi-dashboard-application"},{"title":"Faculty/PI Dashboard Now Available in FinHub | Financial Management Modernization","url":"https://financemanagement.ucsb.edu/news/facultypi-dashboard-now-available-finhub"},{"title":"PI Dashboard-Releases | Research Administration and Compliance Systems","url":"https://ras.fss.harvard.edu/pi-dashboard-releases"},{"title":"For Research Admins — PI Dashboard Guide","url":"https://guide.pidash.cornell.edu/admins"},{"title":"Monitor and Report Financial Information | Guide to Using RASS & PI Dashboard","url":"https://guide.rass.cornell.edu/sponsored-projects/monitor-and-report-financial-informaiton/"},{"title":"PI Dashboard | Office of Sponsored Projects","url":"https://in.nau.edu/osp/your-sponsored-project/project-management/pi-dashboard/"},{"title":"Details — PI Dashboard Guide","url":"https://guide.pidash.cornell.edu/details"}]

Based on the search results, here's what I found about research lab financial management software with PI dashboards:

## University-Based PI Dashboard Systems

Several major universities have developed PI Dashboard systems for research financial management:

### Cornell University
The PI Dashboard (pidash.cornell.edu) is designed to answer questions about the financial aspects of research projects at Cornell.(no content)It's mainly for Cornell researchers and people who support them (PIs and Research Administrators), helping answer questions like "Am I on track to spend all of my money on schedule?", "Who is being paid on my projects?", and "What percent of their effort is on my projects?"

### Harvard University
Harvard's PI Dashboard is a post-award management system that provides financial reporting and projection tools for Harvard's research community with both sponsored and non-sponsored funds. It provides summary information and also allows users to create and save projections, monitor spending.

### George Washington University
PI Dashboard is designed to reduce administrative burden, increase transparency and streamline the financial management of awards. Reporting is dynamic, so researchers can get a birds-eye view of their project or drill down into specific expenses.(no content)The system requires a Tableau license for access.

### UC Santa Barbara
The Faculty/PI Dashboard Reports in FinHub are designed to give Faculty, Principal Investigators, and Co-Principal Investigators a centralized view of their award and project details, as well as financial reports for their Sponsored Projects and Faculty Funds.(no content)This includes two main categories of funding: Sponsored Projects, including cost-share tied to a specific sponsored award, and Faculty Funds, including start-up, internal awards, discretionary funds, and faculty-specific gifts.

### Northern Arizona University
The PI Dashboard was developed for the purpose of allowing Principal Investigators (PIs) and Program Directors (PDs) the ability to review budget, expenditure, and encumbrance information related to their active sponsored projects accounts.(no content)Information displayed for sponsored projects is updated nightly to ensure PIs/PDs have the most current transactional information, containing common information most useful for PIs/PDs to self-monitor financial transactions on their sponsored projects.

## Key Features Across Systems

These PI Dashboard systems typically offer:
- Budget tracking and spending monitoring
- Personnel/labor cost tracking
- Burn rate and fund depletion date calculations
- Export capabilities to Excel
- Single sign-on authentication
- Integration with institutional financial systems


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Web search results for query: "AI grant budget management research labs universities"

Links: [{"title":"AI Relevant Funding Opportunities | Research Development","url":"https://researchdev.research.virginia.edu/resources/aifunding"},{"title":"Spendlab.org: Budget planning for the grant-funded community","url":"https://www.spendlab.org/"},{"title":"AI Lab Funding | Eller College of Management","url":"https://eller.arizona.edu/departments-research/centers-labs/artificial-intelligence/funding"},{"title":"Spencer Initiative on AI and Education","url":"https://www.spencer.org/initiative-on-ai-and-education"},{"title":"AI Grant","url":"https://aigrant.org/"},{"title":"GoodAI Grants | GoodAI","url":"https://www.goodai.com/goodai-grants/"},{"title":"Cooperative AI","url":"https://www.cooperativeai.com/grants/2025"},{"title":"Cohere Labs - Catalyst Grants","url":"https://cohere.com/research/grants"},{"title":"California Education Learning Lab's AI Challenge - California Grants Portal","url":"https://www.grants.ca.gov/grants/california-education-learning-labs-ai-challenge/"},{"title":"Artificial Intelligence | NSF - U.S. National Science Foundation","url":"https://www.nsf.gov/focus-areas/ai"}]

Here are the search results for AI grant budget management at research labs and universities:

## Budget Management Tools for Research Labs

**Spendlab** is a budget planning tool for grant-funded research that can handle multiple funding sources, recurring payments, indirect/overhead costs, raises and fringe benefits. It allows users to click and drag to quickly add expenses and allocate them to grants.(no content)It's now being used by labs at more than 60 universities, including MIT, Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins, ETH Zurich, University of Washington, and many others.(no content)The tool helps users avoid overspending and underspending, and plan for funding gaps and grant expirations.

## AI Research Funding Sources

### National Science Foundation (NSF)
The U.S. National Science Foundation has invested in AI research since the early 1960s and is a major federal funder of AI research, making investments to catalyze new discoveries and build the workforce needed for U.S. global leadership.(no content)NSF invests over $700 million each year in AI research.

### University of Arizona AI Lab
The AI Lab at Arizona's Eller College has received more than $50 million in research funding from 100+ grants, awards, and contracts, with more than 50 grants from NSF. Much of the Lab's funding has come from federal agencies including NSF and NIH.

### Other AI Grant Programs
- **AI Grant** offers $5,000 - $50,000 in grants for open source projects, with grants available as compute or cash.
- **Cooperative AI Foundation** offers early-career track projects with budgets of maximum GBP 100,000 for up to 12 months.(no content)Their grants range from GBP 10,000 to GBP 385,000, with a median size close to GBP 150,000.
- **Cohere Labs Catalyst Grants** support academics, civic institutions and impact-driven organizations using AI and research to create real-world change.

### Education-Focused AI Grants
**California Education Learning Lab's AI Grand Challenge** supports large-scale projects at UC, CSU, and California Community Colleges, intending to award 3 to 6 grants of up to $1.5 million each.(no content)The AI FAST Challenge will award up to 25 grants between $25,000 and $200,000.(no content)The **Spencer Initiative on AI and Education** funds research on AI, education, and learning that supports equitable educational use, development, and understanding of AI technologies.


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Web search results for query: "grant management software for principal investigators researchers 2024 2025"

Links: [{"title":"Grant Management Software: Grant Funding Database Software","url":"https://www.infoedglobal.com/products/grants-and-contracts/"},{"title":"Grants Management Software for Research Administration","url":"https://www.cayuse.com/blog/research-administration-funding-portfolio/"},{"title":"Best Grant Management Software 2025 | Capterra","url":"https://www.capterra.com/grant-management-software/"},{"title":"Mentor Research Administration - Grants Management | Sitero","url":"https://sitero.com/technology/research-administration/mentor-grants-management/"},{"title":"Grant management software - Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_management_software"},{"title":"Grant Manager Pricing, Alternatives & More 2025 | Capterra","url":"https://www.capterra.com/p/92667/Grant-Manager/"},{"title":"Research Funding Software Explained: 2024 Expert Guide","url":"https://www.infonetica.net/articles/research-funding-software"},{"title":"20 Top and Free Grant Management Software in 2024 - Reviews, Features, Pricing, Comparison - PAT RESEARCH: B2B Reviews, Buying Guides & Best Practices","url":"https://www.predictiveanalyticstoday.com/grant-management-software/"},{"title":"How Research Grant Management Software Can Help Your Research Organization – CommunityForce","url":"https://www.communityforce.com/how-research-grant-management-software-can-help-your-research-organization/"},{"title":"Pre-Awards Grant Management Software: Pre-Award Software","url":"https://www.infoedglobal.com/products/pre-award-grants-management/"}]

Based on the search results, here's an overview of grant management software options for principal investigators and researchers in 2024-2025:

## Key Grant Management Software Solutions

### InfoEd Global Grants and Contracts Suite
For over 30 years, principal investigators and research administrators have been relying on the InfoEd Grants and Contracts Suite to automate and streamline every step of Grants and Awards management.(no content)The grant management database software modules support an integrated, collaborative workflow where investigators, departments and central offices can link interdependent activities, share a common view, and eliminate redundancy.

Their SPIN tool offers active searching, automated opportunity matching, and daily opportunity notifications, providing access to the most extensive research funding opportunity database available.

### Cayuse
Cayuse helps automate the generation of current and pending support, which is necessary for submissions to NSF, NIH and other federal agencies, and greatly expedites proposal development.

### Grant Manager
This is cloud-based accounting software for research institutions, university departments, and private non-profit agencies. Accountants and principal investigators use Grant Manager to create and track transactions, attach digital documents, speed up data entry with smart automation, and graph spending trends to project over- or underspending grants.

### Mentor Grants Management (Sitero)
Principal Investigators (PI) have access to all their own grants on the same page, regardless of which Grants administrator they are working through.(no content)The system features streamlined document management where grant administrators can designate essential documents, assign each to a specific person, and schedule timely reminders.

## Key Features to Look For

Grant management software helps non-profit organizations and educational institutions manage all aspects of grant funding—from tracking grant applications to managing deadlines and reports, monitoring budgets, and ensuring compliance.(no content)Key functions for grantseekers include grant discovery, budget planning, peer collaboration, regulatory compliance, proposal submission, administrative reporting and project tracking.

## Free Options
Some top free grant management software options include OpenProject, ProjectLibre, Fluxx, PeopleSoft Enterprise Grants Management, Wizehive, GrantHub, and Award Force for Grants Starter.

## 2024 Trends
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are set to transform the landscape of research funding software, with AI-powered tools becoming increasingly sophisticated in enhancing proposal quality.(no content)Machine learning models can now match researchers with the most suitable funding opportunities based on their research profiles and past successes, and analyze historical funding data to identify trends and patterns.


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Web search results for query: "Cayuse Fibi Kuali research administration software comparison"

Links: [{"title":"Kuali alternative | See how Kuali compares to other vendors >>","url":"https://cayuse.com/kuali-alternative/"},{"title":"Best eRA Software & eRA Research Compliance Software","url":"https://streamlyne.com/era-software-guide/"},{"title":"Research Administration Software Comparison | What eRA software is best?","url":"https://cayuse.com/research-administration-software-comparison/"},{"title":"Kuali Research | Streamline Research Administration","url":"https://www.kuali.co/products/research"},{"title":"Cayuse | Research Administration & Compliance Software | Cayuse","url":"https://www.cayuse.com/"},{"title":"Research Administration Software | Easier Research Management","url":"https://cayuse.com/apps/"},{"title":"Cayuse Research Administration Software | Ohio University","url":"https://www.ohio.edu/research/cayuse"},{"title":"Kuali Research | University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science","url":"https://www.umces.edu/kuali-research"},{"title":"Fibi : e-Research Administration Suite | LinkedIn","url":"https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/fibiresearchadministrationsuite/"},{"title":"Sponsored Programs Management Software | Kuali Research","url":"https://www.kuali.co/products/sponsored"}]

Based on the search results, here's a comparison of Cayuse, Fibi, and Kuali research administration software:

## Overview of Leading Research Administration Platforms

If you're searching for an eRA software for your university or research program, you'll likely become familiarized with names like Streamlyne, Cayuse, Kuali, InfoEd, and Huron. Each of these companies have their own eRA software product and approach, with a base of users.

### Cayuse
- With a platform centered on solutions first developed in 1994, Cayuse offers a suite of software aimed at research administration programs. Over the years, they have expanded their product offerings primarily through acquisition of other programs, while maintaining a focus on simplicity. They are headquartered in Portland, Oregon.
- Their connected, cloud-based platform simplifies compliance, boosts efficiency, and accelerates discovery.
- Cayuse products communicate with each other and with institution's favorite HR, payroll, general ledger, and ERP systems to eliminate duplicate data entry and save time. Cayuse is the exclusive research administration software partner for Ellucian Banner.
- Cayuse is a global solution for empowering connected research, hosted by over 650 research organizations across the world.

### Kuali Research
- Originally founded as a not-for-profit consortium, Kuali is a private company that creates tools to directly serve the needs of educational institutions. Kuali Research, one of their many modules, has been developed with continuous input from the institutions it serves in order to align its functions with current requirements. Their headquarters are in Lehi, Utah.
- Over the last decade, Kuali moved from an open-source model to a for profit model, and subsequently has seen a large decline in implementations.
- The Kuali Research interface is described as "much more intuitive than our previous system, and the time to train end users has been cut in half."
- Features include an easy to use interface, flexible/configurable forms and workflow that make it easy to adapt when regulations change, modern APIs supporting integration with other campus systems, and secure SaaS with continuous delivery meaning no upgrades to worry about.

### Fibi
- With Fibi, researchers, administrators, and sponsors can focus on their work, while the platform takes care of the administrative side. Fibi reduces the burden of research administration and ensures that data efficiency and accuracy are improved.
- Fibi is now live at Johns Hopkins University. The Grants Management System is up and running, bringing efficiency and convenience for the JHU community.
- Fibi Grants Management System aims to streamline proposal development & submissions which frees researchers to focus on groundbreaking discoveries.

### Key Differentiators

**Integration & Data Entry:**
- Kuali Research is a comprehensive research administration system (as opposed to a pre-award proposal tool), and much of the duplicate data entry that is currently required will be eliminated. Some institutions previously entered the same information repeatedly into Cayuse and other systems, with each being completely separate and unable to communicate with the others.

**Implementation Experience:**
- One Kuali user described their 18-month project as "probably the smoothest implementation I could have ever imagined."
- Users report that "The support from KualiCo was great. It really did make the transition as smooth as possible."


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Web search results for query: "Spendlab research budget planning tool features pricing review"

Links: [{"title":"Spendlab.org: Budget planning for the grant-funded community","url":"https://www.spendlab.org/"},{"title":"Spendlab.org: What's New","url":"https://www.spendlab.org/versions.html"},{"title":"Spendlab.org: Resources","url":"https://www.spendlab.org/help.html"},{"title":"Spend Lab - Getting started","url":"https://www.spendlab.org/start.html"},{"title":"21 Best Budgeting and Planning Software Reviewed in 2025","url":"https://thecfoclub.com/tools/best-budgeting-planning-software/"},{"title":"Lab Spend","url":"https://labspend.com/"},{"title":"21 Best Spend Management Software Reviewed in 2025","url":"https://thecfoclub.com/tools/best-spend-management-software/"},{"title":"24 Best Project Budget Software Reviewed In 2025","url":"https://thedigitalprojectmanager.com/tools/best-project-budget-software/"},{"title":"25 Best Budget Management Software Reviewed In 2025","url":"https://thecfoclub.com/tools/best-budget-management-software/"},{"title":"Best Budget Planning Software: Top Tools | ClearPoint Strategy Blog","url":"https://www.clearpointstrategy.com/blog/budget-planning-software-tools"}]

Based on the search results, here's information about **Spendlab**, a budget planning tool designed for the research/grant-funded community:

## Overview

Spendlab.org helps you explore and track optimized funding plans using an interactive overview that includes all of your grants and significant expenses.(no content)It started in a single lab and is now used by researchers across the world to responsibly steward grant resources.

## Key Features

- Avoid overspending and underspending. Plan for funding gaps and grant expirations. Handle multiple funding sources, recurring payments, indirect/overhead costs, raises and fringe benefits, and much more.
- Click and drag to quickly add expenses and allocate them to grants.
- Your budget data never travels over the internet, even though the software operates in a web browser. They run all calculations on your own computer and save your budget files locally. The spendlab.org servers never see or store your data.
- You can create definitions that change over time for salaries, fringe benefit rates, and indirect rates.
- You can export detailed expense data for further analysis and reporting using spreadsheets or other software.

## Pricing

$150 per year — labs with less than $250,000 in annual direct costs · $250 per year — labs with less than $1 million in annual direct costs · $400 per year — unlimited budget size and priority new feature requests.(no content)Licenses are only required to save changes to budget files (viewing is free for everyone). If you have more than one person who needs to save changes, or more than one lab to manage, you can choose whether each license is per-lab or per-person.

## Free Trial

Spendlab includes a 3-month free trial to give you plenty of time to try it out. After that, you will need a yearly license to save new versions of your budget files.

## User Review

"I literally don't know how I would run my lab without Spendlab. I refer to it daily." -Assistant Professor, University of Washington

## Background

The idea for Spendlab arose when Robin's friend — a professor — described how much time she spent paging through spreadsheets and documents just to answer simple questions about her lab's budget. Together, they designed Spendlab with the goal of minimizing the amount of time it takes to input data, modify spending plans, and keep track of what's going on in the lab.(no content)The founder previously designed data visualization tools at Tableau Software and studied human-computer interaction at MIT.


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Web search results for query: "grant management developing countries low resource institutions Africa Asia"

Links: [{"title":"Funding and support - Research and innovation - European Commission","url":"https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/strategy/strategy-research-and-innovation/europe-world/international-cooperation/regional-dialogues-and-international-organisations/eu-africa-cooperation/funding-and-support_en"},{"title":"Good Financial Grant Practice: A Tool for Developing and Demonstrating Institutional Financial and Grant Management Capacity in Global Health - PMC","url":"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8634540/"},{"title":"A Changing Landscape: Trends in official financial flows and the aid architecture","url":"https://thedocs.worldbank.org/en/doc/9eb18daf0e574a0f106a6c74d7a1439e-0060012021/original/A-Changing-Landscape-Trends-in-Official-Financial-Flows-and-the-Aid-Architecture-November-2021.pdf"},{"title":"Grants for Africa to Explore | Instrumentl Grant Database | Instrumentl","url":"https://www.instrumentl.com/browse-grants/africa"},{"title":"Growing Together The IMF and African Low-Income Countries","url":"https://www.imf.org/Publications/fandd/issues/2021/12/Africa-Low-Income-Countries"},{"title":"Find Funding • mesh","url":"https://mesh.tghn.org/funding/"},{"title":"The Louis Dreyfus Foundation Scholarship and Leadership Program for Individuals from Developing Countries in Africa, Asia and South America - fundsforNGOs - Grants and Resources for Sustainability","url":"https://www.fundsforngos.org/scholarships-2/louis-dreyfus-foundation-scholarship-leadership-program-individuals-developing-countries-africa-asia-south-america/"},{"title":"Africa Archives - Terra Viva Grants","url":"https://www.terravivagrants.org/tag/africa/"},{"title":"Grant Funds For NGOs - World Project Funding Organisations","url":"https://www.charityexcellence.co.uk/grant-funds-for-ngos/"},{"title":"Knowledge, Learning, and Innovation Grants","url":"https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/reach/brief/reach-knowledge-learning-and-innovation-grants"}]

Here are the search results on grant management for developing countries and low-resource institutions in Africa and Asia:

## Key Findings

### Good Financial Grant Practice (GFGP) Standard
The GFGP Standard has proved to be an effective tool for identifying and addressing key organizational risks and for developing institutional financial and grant management capacity across global health partners in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.(no content)This initiative involved major funders including Wellcome, UK Research and Innovation, the IKEA Foundation, and the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership, and was developed through interactive workshops with active participation from LMIC grantees and global grantors.(no content)Once organizations have self-assessed, they can request to be certified against the GFGP Standard by a licensed auditor who will review the adequacy of procedures, processes, and policies in addressing key organizational risks. If assessed as fully compliant, they receive a certificate of compliance.

### African Union Research Grants
The African Union Research Grant programme (AURG) exploits Africa's scientific excellence and promotes greater involvement of African scientists, researchers and institutions in implementing the Consolidated Plan of Action.(no content)The AURG supports pan-African research and development through grants and direct funding, with the objective of improving science and technology research capacity and international collaboration between Europe and Africa.

### Funding Support for Low-Resource Contexts
Some foundations support US-based organizations serving vulnerable populations in developing countries, prioritizing countries where the need is great and the environment allows for successful outcomes, including Latin America, Africa, and South & Southeast Asia.(no content)The Global Raptor Research & Conservation Grant invests in projects led by citizens of developing countries to increase diversity and build local capacity, with preference given to projects working in low-income countries.

### World Bank Knowledge, Learning & Innovation Grants
Some approaches, if effective, can be scaled up and extended to other countries that have similar low-resource contexts.(no content)KLI Grants fund studies addressing questions relevant to developing countries, such as whether pay-for-performance schemes can improve performance and how effective such contracts are at attracting skilled workers to undersupplied areas.

### Resources for Finding Funding
MESH provides guides including "Low-cost and Upstream Engagement for Funding Proposals" which aims to inspire ideas on how to conduct community engagement to feed into a funding proposal where limited resources and budget are available.(no content)Charity Excellence Framework provides 60+ funder lists, including for international development, Africa and Southern Asia, along with a Funding Finder that includes links to other free grant directories globally.


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Web search results for query: ""research administration" frustration problems PIs faculty universities complaints"

Links: [{"title":"Top 3 frustrations for research administrators--and how to handle them","url":"https://www.cayuse.com/blog/research-administrator-problems/"},{"title":"The Janus Face of Research Administration","url":"https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1070349.pdf"},{"title":"Misconduct in research administration: What is it? How widespread is it? And what should we do about it?: Accountability in Research: Vol 30, No 7","url":"https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08989621.2021.2020110"},{"title":"Navigating Research Administration | CITI Program","url":"https://about.citiprogram.org/blog/navigating-research-administration/"},{"title":"Challenges for Research Administrators in the Research Enterprise","url":"https://www.theconsultinglead.com/single-post/2019/01/10/challenges-for-research-administrators-in-the-research-enterprise"},{"title":"Research Administration: Relieving the Pressure on Researchers - Ex Libris","url":"https://exlibrisgroup.com/blog/research-administration-relieving-the-pressure-on-researchers/"},{"title":"PI Eligibility | Resources | Res Admin | ASU","url":"https://researchadmin.asu.edu/resources/pi-eligibility/"}]

Here are the search results on research administration frustrations and problems experienced by PIs and faculty at universities:

## Key Findings

### Common Frustrations for Research Administrators
Research administrators face demanding PIs, complex applications, ambiguous agency regulations, and often "downright scary deadlines."(no content)Despite many rules against it, PIs will wait until the very last minute to submit their proposal to the Sponsored Programs Office for review.

### Administrative Burden on Researchers
According to the 2012 Faculty Workload Survey Research Report, 42% of time spent on federally funded projects goes to attending federal requirements.(no content)The National Science Foundation Report on Reducing Investigators' Administrative Workload for Federally Funded Research asserts that "dissemination of effective practices and models can create efficiencies that reduce PIs' administrative workload."

### Structural Problems
Washington University recognized that its central research administration structure was "fragmented and plagued by weak service, slow response, and little or no support for proposal development."(no content)Its response was to create a "one stop shop," where faculty could have all of their grants needs taken care of by a single office.

### Communication Challenges
From time to time, research administrators can find themselves at odds with faculty and research teams at their institution. Oftentimes, challenges in research administration are based on differences in experience, roles, tasks, and priorities.

### Researcher Burnout and Isolation
The administrative demands on researchers may have to be reduced if universities want to avoid burnout and ensure quality research.(no content)An Australian researcher described their experience: "I spend my days working in isolation at a computer, seen only as someone that must produce 'output'. I don't feel a part of an organization or team working together to achieve an outcome."

### Integrity Concerns
Virtually all scholarly literature on responsible conduct in research focuses on the integrity of scientists, but does not yet address the integrity of those responsible for research administration. A lack of integrity in research administration can jeopardize the progress of science, the careers of researchers, and the reputation of institutions.


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# Spendlab.org Version History

**Latest Update:** May 2024 (Version 14)

**Key Recent Features:**
- "Keep historical balances" so previous data isn't lost
- "Compare projected vs. actual" balance differences
- Timeline notes functionality
- Math expression support for number inputs
- Data export capabilities

**Version Timeline:**
The site documents releases spanning from November 2018 (v8) through May 2024 (v14), showing 7 major versions over approximately 5.5 years.

**Update Frequency:**
Based on the documented history, updates occur irregularly—ranging from 4-6 months between releases. The gaps between versions suggest this is not a frequently updated product, with development occurring on an as-needed basis rather than on a fixed schedule.

# Spendlab.org Product Status

## Active Development & Current Use

**Evidence of Active Engagement:**
- The website references a "3-minute intro video" and multiple learning resources, indicating ongoing product maintenance
- Team includes founder Robin Stewart plus associates and interns, suggesting active operations
- The site mentions being "used by labs at more than 60 universities" across multiple countries, demonstrating established user base

## Version Information

No specific version number or last-update date is explicitly stated on the page. However, the copyright footer shows "© 2024 Math Easel, LLC," indicating recent website maintenance.

## User Testimonials

The site features a direct quote: "I literally don't know how I would run my lab without Spendlab. I refer to it daily." —attributed to an Assistant Professor at University of Washington.

## Team Composition

The organization includes:
- A founder (Robin Stewart) with prior experience at Tableau Software
- An associate (Lisa Stachura) handling training and customer support
- Three interns from Williams College studying computer science, economics, and related fields

## Key Indicator

The operational model emphasizes "long-term" sustainability through yearly licenses and "no venture capital" funding, suggesting deliberate positioning for stability rather than rapid scaling.

Web search results for query: "what do principal investigators want from research administration survey faculty needs"

Links: [{"title":"Top 5 Ways Your Principal Investigators (PIs) Will Benefit From eRA | Cayuse","url":"https://www.cayuse.com/blog/electronic-research-administration-benefits/"},{"title":"Ten simple rules for providing optimal administrative support to research teams - PMC","url":"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6776255/"},{"title":"The FDP Faculty Burden Survey - PMC","url":"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2887040/"},{"title":"Principal And Co-Principal Investigators, Eligibility Roles, Rights, Responsibilities, And Obligations : Faculty Senate : UMass Amherst","url":"https://www.umass.edu/senate/book/faculty-and-research-policies-principal-and-co-principal-investigators-eligibility-roles"},{"title":"Research Roles | Rutgers Research","url":"https://research.rutgers.edu/faculty-staff/compliance/human-research-protection/research-roles"},{"title":"Principal Investigators – Office of Research","url":"https://officeofresearch.ucsc.edu/principal-investigators/"},{"title":"Ten simple rules for providing optimal administrative support to research teams | PLOS Computational Biology","url":"https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007292"},{"title":"PI Eligibility | Office of Research Administration","url":"https://research.fas.harvard.edu/pi-eligibility"},{"title":"Responsibilities of Principal Investigators | Human Research Protection Program (HRPP)","url":"https://hrpp.research.virginia.edu/responsibilities-principal-investigators"},{"title":"Principal Investigators | Human Subjects Office - Office of the Vice President for Research | The University of Iowa","url":"https://hso.research.uiowa.edu/get-started/roles-and-responsibilities/principal-investigators"}]

Based on the search results, here's what I found about what principal investigators want from research administration and faculty needs:

## Key Findings from Research Administration Surveys

### Administrative Burden is Significant
The Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP) invited 23,325 full-time faculty members who were Principal Investigators or Co-Principal Investigators on active federally funded research grants to participate in a web-based survey. The responses of the 6,081 faculty respondents show that the administrative burden on faculty is very significant: 42% of the time spent by an average PI on a federally funded research project was reported to be expended on administrative tasks rather than on research.

### What PIs Want Most
Principal investigators simply want to have an easy way to see their proposal and award information in real time.(no content)Institutions often have other enterprise-level management software, but it can be complex and difficult to navigate, not designed for casual end users such as PIs. In fact, PIs often don't have access to such systems.

### Top Administrative Burdens
If human subjects or animals were used in the research, then IRB or IACUC became the #1 administrative burden for that investigator.(no content)Some burdens were remarkably consistent across all funding agencies, all types of academic institutions, all research disciplines, and all faculty demographics. For example, the mean burden for grant progress reports was 3.32, and the extremes of the values for all subcategories examined were 2.94 and 3.51. The burden of this task was similar for all agencies, all universities, and all faculty subgroups.

### Disproportionate Impacts
Because the administrative burdens on women and on minority faculty members are greater and the level of administrative support for these faculty members is lower, administrative burdens have disproportionate impacts on women and minorities and thus create barriers to improving diversity in the scientific workforce. The administrative burdens also disproportionately impact junior faculty, thereby discouraging these young researchers from remaining in academia. The administrative burdens also divert faculty time from their trainees and affect the training of future scientists.

### Key Support Needs
It is extremely useful to have the skill of being able to anticipate the needs of the research team, especially the principal investigator. Research teams are very typically busy with managing multiple projects and grants, writing new grant proposals, attending meetings, giving frequent presentations, facilitating lectures, and traveling quite often.(no content)Strong coordination efforts and keeping updated common calendars where all these tasks can be visible at a glance will help to keep competing commitments, priorities, and deadlines from overlapping. Helping them stay on time and ahead on tasks is greatly needed. Anticipating what they need ahead of time without being told is invaluable.

### Important Soft Skills for Research Administration
According to the Research Administration as a Profession (RAAAP) Worldwide project survey, examples of important soft skills are professional capabilities tied to collaboration, taking responsibility, adaptability, problem solving, and communication.


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Web search results for query: "PI administrative burden research time lost universities faculty survey"

Links: [{"title":"The FDP Faculty Burden Survey - PMC","url":"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2887040/"},{"title":"The FDP Faculty Burden Survey - PubMed","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20563268/"},{"title":"Findings of the FASEB Survey on Administrative Burden June 7, 2013 FASEB","url":"https://olaw.nih.gov/sites/default/files/06_07_13 FASEB NSB Survey findings 508c.pdf"},{"title":"FDP releases final version of the Faculty Burden survey :: Researchers Alert","url":"https://myllu.llu.edu/newsletter-researchersalert/story/?id=16022"},{"title":"A Survey of Research Administrators: Identifying Administrative Burden in Post-Award Federal Research Grant Management","url":"https://www.srainternational.org/blogs/srai-jra2/2023/10/13/a-survey-of-research-administrators-identifying-ad"},{"title":"Administrative burden in Australian universities: Insights into dimensions and drivers from a nationwide survey","url":"https://academic.oup.com/spp/advance-article/doi/10.1093/scipol/scaf029/8222541"},{"title":"FDP Faculty Workload Survey: Pre-study Information – Research Insights","url":"https://research.uga.edu/research-insights/fdp-faculty-workload-survey-pre-study-information/"},{"title":"IDENTIFYING ADMINISTRATIVE BURDEN IN POST-AWARD ...","url":"https://dreamtacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/67-Schiller-LeMire-2023.-Administrative-Burden-Federal-Grants-min.pdf"},{"title":"Robotic Bureaucracy: Administrative Burden and Red Tape in University Research - Bozeman - 2020 - Public Administration Review - Wiley Online Library","url":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/puar.13105"},{"title":"What is Administrative Burden in Research, and How Can You Reduce It? | Cayuse","url":"https://www.cayuse.com/blog/research-funding-administrative-burdens/"}]

Based on the search results, here's what I found about administrative burden on principal investigators (PIs) and research time lost at universities:

## Key Survey Findings

### FDP Faculty Burden Survey
The responses of 6,081 faculty respondents show that the administrative burden on faculty is very significant: 42% of the time spent by an average PI on a federally funded research project was reported to be expended on administrative tasks related to that project rather than on research.(no content)The Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP) invited 23,325 full-time faculty members who were Principal Investigators (PI) or Co-Principal Investigators (Co-PI) on active federally funded research grants to participate in a web-based survey.

### Worsening Trend
Despite reform efforts, universities and stakeholder organizations continue to cite increasing administrative workload. The results of the 2018 Federal Demonstration Partnership Faculty Workload Survey revealed the burden reduction did not materialize, and that the amount of time PIs reported committing to these administrative tasks increased to 44.3%.

### Potential for Improvement
Researchers estimated that additional administrative assistance could reduce their time spent on administrative responsibilities by an average of 27% (from an average of 42% to approximately 31%). In absolute terms, researchers estimated that with adequate administrative help roughly 4 hours per week might be reclaimed for active research.

### Sources of Burden
Universities increase the burden by adding other requirements and by using non-optimal approaches to implement administrative tasks. Universities often appear to be driven to "go beyond the regulations" by audits, fears of audits, and the differing interpretations of different auditors.(no content)Time-consuming activities pertain not only to factors directly related to the work, such as hiring, equipment purchases, and training personnel, but also to work not directly related to the actual research, including financial reporting, progress reports, IRB protocols, and certifications. Among the components of research administration, the highest cost category—representing more than 50 percent of total costs—is faculty time required for regulatory compliance activities.

### Faculty Sentiment
Respondents to the 2012 FDP Faculty Workload Survey "reported a sense that the bureaucracy is so intense that they have lost the ability to focus on their research."

### Australian Research
Research on Australian universities highlights the urgent need for better-coordinated support and assistance of academic staff running into administrative issues. Administrative automation within universities works best if supported by readily accessible human expertise.


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Web search results for query: "research administrator pain points challenges daily tasks"

Links: [{"title":"Solutions for the Top 5 Pain Points for Clinical Research Sites - RealTime","url":"https://realtime-eclinical.com/2023/10/31/solutions-for-the-top-5-pain-points-for-clionical-research-sites/"},{"title":"Top 5 Most Common Problems Faced By System Administrators - Alexandria Living Magazine","url":"https://alexandrialivingmagazine.com/top-5-most-common-problems-faced-by-system-administrators/"},{"title":"The Top 5 Pain Points that Administrative Professionals Face (And How to Fix Them)","url":"https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/top-5-pain-points-administrative-professionals-face-how-sean-kelly"},{"title":"Solving Your Comp Admin HR Task Challenges","url":"https://www.canidium.com/blog/hr-administrator-task-challenges"},{"title":"Five Research Pain Points That AI Solves","url":"https://heymarvin.com/resources/research-pain-points/"},{"title":"11 Common Challenges User Researchers Face","url":"https://dovetail.com/blog/11-common-challenges-you-face-as-a-researcher/"},{"title":"(PDF) Challenges faced by a hospital administrator","url":"https://www.researchgate.net/publication/380287617_Challenges_faced_by_a_hospital_administrator"},{"title":"Pain Points of Research. Understanding the world of academia | by Stephanie Liao | Medium","url":"https://medium.com/@stephanie.k.liao/pain-points-of-research-f942a818c976"},{"title":"What are some of the pain points administrative professionals experience in today's business world? - Quora","url":"https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-of-the-pain-points-administrative-professionals-experience-in-todays-business-world"},{"title":"Pain Points of Administration Execs in Industry - IndustrySelect®","url":"https://www.industryselect.com/blog/pain-points-of-administration-execs-in-industry"}]

Based on my search, here's what I found about administrator and researcher pain points and challenges:

## Administrative Professionals - Common Pain Points

### Repetitive Tasks & Time Constraints
The admin's week is often filled with routine or repetitive tasks like guest registration, invoicing, and booking travel.(no content)These banal tasks can eat up precious time, and take away your admin's ability to take on bigger, more value-add projects.

### Mounting Workloads & Burnout
Handling increasing administrative workloads is a growing challenge for administration executives in manufacturing, as companies push for greater efficiency while keeping overhead costs low. As a result, administrative professionals are often expected to take on responsibilities beyond their traditional roles.(no content)The impact of these mounting workloads can be significant, leading to stress, inefficiencies, and even burnout. Critical tasks may be delayed, errors can occur due to rushed work, and overall productivity can suffer.

### Feeling Undervalued
"More often than not, Office Mgmt can feel lonely and thankless. We're generally running around too busy taking care of others and seldom get the pay-off for our hard work."

### Digital Transformation Challenges
The challenge isn't just adopting new technologies—it's ensuring a smooth transition that minimizes disruption to daily operations. Many administration executives find themselves needing to upskill in areas such as data management, workflow automation, and cybersecurity, often with limited IT support.

### Compliance & Regulatory Requirements
Staying on top of the always-shifting compliance and regulatory requirements is another major challenge. Administration executives are responsible for ensuring that their companies adhere to federal, state, and local laws regarding workplace safety, labor rights, environmental standards, and data protection.

## Research-Related Pain Points

### Participant Recruitment
A large part of a research operations' role is managing the participant recruitment process. If a research panel with customers who have proactively opted to participate in research is not available, alternative sources have to be used. Email open rates generally average 15-25%, so if there is a niche participant type, it's even more challenging to recruit enough participants.

### Fragmented Systems & Silos
Customer insights and research functions are fragmented across departments. There is limited knowledge sharing because each team has its own preferred tools and methods. The result? Duplicative efforts.

### Limited Resources & Strategic Time
Managing complex HR tasks can be time-consuming and prone to errors, and they often leave you feeling bogged down, unable to focus on the more strategic aspects of your role.(no content)When research is not valued, organizations will not invest in a group. Many organizations will have an individual researcher across the entire company or multiple product areas, which can strain the researcher to rigorously prioritize what projects they work on.

Would you like me to search more specifically for academic/university research administrator challenges (grants management, sponsored programs, etc.)?


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Web search results for query: "departmental research administrator job responsibilities grant management daily workflow"

Links: [{"title":"Roles and Responsibilities in Grant Management | Research","url":"https://research.njit.edu/roles-and-responsibilities-grant-management"},{"title":"Research Administrator Responsibilities | Office of Research and Technology Management | Case Western Reserve University","url":"https://case.edu/research/awards-agreements/pre-and-post-award-services/research-administrator-responsibilities"},{"title":"Contract & Grant Administrator - Job Descriptions - Human Resources :: The University of New Mexico","url":"https://jobdescriptions.unm.edu/?id=B1011"},{"title":"Roles and Responsibilities for Proposal Preparation & Submission | Research and Innovation","url":"https://research.uoregon.edu/plan/plan-project/proposal-development/roles-and-responsibilities-grant-application-and-administration"},{"title":"List of Research Administrator Responsibilities and Duties","url":"https://www.greatsampleresume.com/job-responsibilities/sciences/research-administrator"},{"title":"Grants Administrator Job Description | Velvet Jobs","url":"https://www.velvetjobs.com/job-descriptions/grants-administrator"},{"title":"The Different Roles in Grant Management | IGX Solutions","url":"https://igxsolutions.com/resources/blog/the-different-roles-in-grant-management/"},{"title":"Department: Administration Position: Grants Administrator Job Description:","url":"https://www.cityofrobstown.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Job-Description-Grants-Administration.pdf"},{"title":"Grants Department Administrator (Job Role)","url":"https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/project-management/24a/oapjm/Grants_Department_Administrator_job_roles.html"},{"title":"Department Administrator Roles and Responsibilities | Research | WashU","url":"https://research.washu.edu/about/roles-responsibilities/department-administrator/"}]

Based on the search results, here's a comprehensive overview of departmental research administrator job responsibilities related to grant management and daily workflow:

## Core Responsibilities

### Pre-Award Support
Research administrators assist researchers in preparing grant applications by providing guidelines, budget templates, subrecipient commitment documents, and ensuring compliance with funding agency requirements.(no content)They provide administrative and technical guidance and support to faculty and staff seeking outside funding for research, public service, and special sponsored institutional projects, and guide and facilitate faculty and staff in the development and preparation of research proposals, contracts, sub-contracts, and agreements, including budgets, documentation, and interpretation of funding requirements.

### Award/Financial Management
Research administrators oversee the budget allocated for the grant, ensuring that expenses are within the approved limits and align with the project's goals. They monitor expenditures, process financial transactions, allocate salaries, and provide guidance on budget adjustments if necessary.(no content)They process financial transactions and review and analyze sponsored projects financial reports. They also review and approve FIS/on-line financial transactions and other financial charges on projects to verify that costs are reasonable and transactions represent an appropriate allocation of costs in accordance with federal regulations.

### Daily Workflow Tasks
Department grant administrators are responsible for setting up "shadow" systems for programmatic and fiscal management, to record daily account charges and reconcile monthly with Financial Information System (FIS) account statement, track project-related tasks, monitor personnel or payroll changes, or manage any other project issues as needed.(no content)A grant administrator or project manager might also support day-to-day tasks, like coordinating activities, timelines and budgets.

### Compliance & Effort Reporting
Research administrators are responsible for the review and submission of effort reports for assigned departments, units or schools to ensure compliance with federal regulations.(no content)They administer departmental research effort reporting and submit signed effort certificates complying with guidelines, collaborate with central administration to represent research faculty needs and maintain grant awards and agreements' records.

### Coordination Role
Department administrators are administrative staff that work at the departmental level and coordinate with the department head, Principal Investigators, and school, department, and central administration personnel to support and provide guidance on the administration of compliance, financial, personnel, and other related aspects of research projects.(no content)They assist the principal investigator with the administrative functions of an award and its related projects, particularly with data collection and data entry tasks for one or more departments within the enterprise.

### Required Skills
Key skills include the ability to make administrative/procedural decisions and judgments, organizing and coordinating skills, and the ability to perform complex tasks and to prioritize multiple projects.(no content)Administrators need knowledge of federal, state and/or community funding sources and mechanisms, as well as the ability to analyze budgetary line items for compliance with budget guidelines.


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Web search results for query: ""FDP Faculty Workload Survey" 2018 2022 results findings administrative tasks"

Links: [{"title":"The FDP Faculty Burden Survey - PMC","url":"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2887040/"},{"title":"Faculty Workload Survey - The Federal Demonstration Partnership","url":"https://thefdp.org/demonstrations-resources/faculty-workload-survey/"},{"title":"The FDP Faculty Burden Survey - PubMed","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20563268/"},{"title":"2018 Faculty Workload Survey","url":"https://thefdp.org/wp-content/uploads/FDP-FWS-2018-Primary-Report.pdf"},{"title":"Results of the 2018 FDP FACULTY WORKLOAD SURVEY","url":"https://thefdp.org/wp-content/uploads/FDP-FWS3-Results-Plenary-Jan19-fnl.pdf"},{"title":"FDP releases final version of the Faculty Burden survey :: Researchers Alert","url":"https://myllu.llu.edu/newsletter-researchersalert/story/?id=16022"},{"title":"FDP Faculty Workload Survey: Pre-study Information – Research Insights","url":"https://research.uga.edu/research-insights/fdp-faculty-workload-survey-pre-study-information/"},{"title":"Results of the 2018 FDP FACULTY WORKLOAD SURVEY: Input for Optimizing Time on","url":"https://thefdp-archive.org/default/assets/File/Presentations/Schneider%20FDP%20FWS3%20Results%20Plenary%20Jan19.pdf"},{"title":"FDP Faculty Workload Survey - ResearchAdministrationDigest.com - Reading the industry so you don't have to","url":"http://www.researchadministrationdigest.com/fdp-faculty-workload-survey/"},{"title":"2012 Faculty Workload Survey","url":"https://thefdp.org/wp-content/uploads/fws_2012_exec_summary.pdf"}]

Based on my search, here's what I found about the FDP Faculty Workload Survey results and findings related to administrative tasks:

## FDP Faculty Workload Survey Overview

The FDP Faculty Workload Surveys are follow-up studies to the 2005 and 2012 surveys, which provided estimates of the proportion of federally-funded research time spent on administrative workload compared to active research.(no content)These estimates have been used by institutions, national groups, federal agencies, and even lawmakers to try to target and decrease unnecessary research-related administrative burden.

## Key Findings on Administrative Tasks

### Time Spent on Administrative Work
The responses of the 6,081 faculty respondents show that the administrative burden on faculty is very significant: 42% of the time spent by an average PI on a federally funded research project was reported to be expended on administrative tasks related to that project rather than on research.(no content)PIs spend nearly half their research-related effort handling administrative activities. Tabulating results from over 13,000 faculty representing 111 distinct FDP member institutions, Schneider, et al., noted that on average, PIs estimated that they spend 42% of their research time meeting administrative requirements rather than conducting actual research.

### Most Time-Consuming Administrative Responsibilities
The most commonly experienced administrative responsibilities included those related to federal project finances, personnel, and effort reporting. These were also among the most time-consuming responsibilities.(no content)For researchers engaged in projects that required human or animal subjects, the related IRB (Institutional Review Board) and IACUC (Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee) requirements were by far the most time-consuming. Other areas viewed as particularly time consuming were those involving clinical trials, subcontracts, and cross-agency differences.

### Changes Over Time
Since 2005, increases were observed in the proportion of respondents reporting substantial time devoted to federal project finances, personnel, and patent/copyright applications, and slight decreases in the proportion reporting substantial time required to meet HIPAA requirements and to complete IRB training.

### Nature of Administrative Burden
This administrative burden does not stem from one or a few exceptionally onerous tasks, but instead reflects the cumulative effect of the many administrative burdens imposed by different funding agencies.(no content)Administrative workload differed as a function of respondent characteristics including respondent's administrative role, field of study, research assignment, type of project, funding source, amount of funding, and type of institution. These differences were most pronounced in the areas of post-award administration and then interim/final report preparation.

## 2018 Survey
The 2018 Faculty Workload Survey was designed to update these data to determine whether the workload has changed, and to extend the earlier survey findings by exploring variables associated with administrative workload, as well as priorities for change.

Note: My search did not return specific results for a 2022 FDP Faculty Workload Survey. You may want to check the FDP website directly at thefdp.org for more recent survey data.


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